The visit was a triumph, and he said to a friend excitedly, "I was able to convince Hilbert of the general theory of relativity."

这次访问是一次胜利，他兴奋地对一个朋友说：“我说服了希尔伯特相信广义相对论。”

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In his general theory of relativity, published in 1916, Einstein showed that gravity too can slow time.

在他1916年发表的广义相对论中，爱因斯坦证明了重力可以减慢时间。

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Einstein would tackle this later in his general theory of relativity.

爱因斯坦在他后来的广义相对论中去处理这个问题。

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"From Einstein's theory of gravity, that is his general relativity theory, we believe mass curves space and this can cause light to follow a curved path, " he told BBC News Online.

BBC: Test for Einstein's gravity speed theory

"This means that by watching what happens to the positions of the quasars on the sky as the gravitational field of Jupiter moves past their line-of-sight, the scientists can test other aspects of the general relativity theory, " says Professor Shanks.

BBC: Test for Einstein's gravity speed theory

In particle physics, sound-bite explanations are much harder: wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, general relativity and string theory make good mathematical sense, or so I am told, but they generally defy translation into English.

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